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  Jane in Search of a Job - A...

  Agatha Christie

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  A classic Agatha Christie short story from the collection The Golden Ball and Other Stories 
  Jane Cleveland is in desperate need of a job, and when she sees an ad for a woman of her description needed to impersonate a grand duchess, she cannot believe her luck. The royal retainers tell Jane that the job will be dangerous because attempts have been made on the Grand Duchess Pauline's life, but this only serves to make the job more appealing. Jane's disguise initially goes according to plan, but when she is kidnapped and drugged, it appears that her new employers are not all that they seem…

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  Richest Man In Babylon The -...

  George S. Clason

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  The Richest Man in Babylon, based on "Babylonian parables", has been hailed as the greatest of all inspirational works on the subject of thrift, financial planning, and personal wealth. In simple language, these fascinating and informative stories set you on a sure path to prosperity and its accompanying joys. A celebrated bestseller, it offers an understanding and a solution to your personal financial problem. Revealed inside are the secrets to acquiring money, keeping money, and making money earn more money. This original edition has the original language, content, and message from George S. Clason as intended in 1926. It's all here, uncensored.

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  Psalm

  Mikhail Bulgakov

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  "Psalm" is  a short touching story, written in 1923. Part of the "Travel Notes" series. Published: On the Eve, Berlin - M., 1923.
  I will buy a dog on Saturday
  I will sing a psalm at night
  I will order shoes for tailcoat…
  But it's okay. Somehow… we will live.

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  This Time Tomorrow - and other...

  Eleanor Wells

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  In ten thrilling stories, lonely young women lost in the confines of modernity are forced to confront the price of human connection through brushes with everyday fears. 
  In London, an American student lives next door to unimaginable horrors in “The Couple in 2B.” 
  A successful actress is stalked by a former classmate in “Daisy Bell.” 
  And in “This Time Tomorrow,” a writer is invited on a weekend getaway by a coworker and her charismatic older boyfriend. 
  With the suspense of Alfred Hitchcock and introspection of Rod Serling, the heart of these and This Time Tomorrow’s other tales lies in Eleanor Wells’ exploration of the aftermath of sorrow, when the sun rises and life must go on.

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  The Schoolmistress - and Other...

  Anton Chekhov

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  Experience life and hardships in turn-of-the-century Russia with this collection of provocative stories by one of the greatest writers of all time. Anton Chekhov captures life in late-nineteenth-century Russia with these evocative tales. For example, in “The Schoolmistress,” a hard-working, underpaid schoolteacher contemplates dating a man she knows is terrible for her. In “A Nervous Breakdown,” an idealistic young law student cannot handle what he witnesses after a night in Moscow’s red light district.  The author of such plays as The Cherry Orchard and Uncle Vanya, Anton Chekhov was also a prolific writer of short stories. His style, as present in this collection, will remind readers of other great nineteenth-century authors such as Guy de Maupassant.

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  Householders

  Kate Cayley

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  A CBC BOOKS AND QUILL & QUIRE ANTICIPATED FALL BOOK 
  		 
  A LAMBDA LITERARY MOST ANTICIPATED LGBTQIA+ TITLE
  		 
  A 49TH SHELF BOOK OF THE YEAR 2021
  		 
  Linked short stories about families, nascent queers, and self-deluded utopians explore the moral ordinary strangeness in their characters’ overlapping lives.
  		 
  A woman impersonates a nun online, with unexpected consequences. In a rapidly changing neighborhood, tensions escalate around two events planned for the same day. The barista girlfriend of a tech billionaire survives a zombie apocalypse only to face spending her life with the paranoid super-rich. From a university campus to an underground bunker, a commune in the woods to Toronto and back again, the linked stories in Householders move effortlessly between the commonplace and the fantastic. In deft and exacting narratives about difficult children and thorny friendships, hopeful revolutionaries and self-deluded utopians, nascent queers, sincere frauds, and families of all kinds, Kate Cayley mines the moral hazards inherent in the ways we try to save each other and ourselves.

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